Stories

Imagining the future we want requires open and honest conversation. In the spirit of bringing disciplines together and opening lines of conversation and debate, we are sharing a series of articles based on experiences from the Wearables for Good Challenge and Incubation Programme. Within these stories, experts and advisors from around the world share their views on wearable and sensor technology and what is needed to realise the future we desire.

By Team Soapen

By Ruchit Nagar (Khushi Baby)

Each year, 1.5 million children die from vaccine-preventable diseases and a third of these children live in India. We at Khushi Baby want to play a part in addressing this issue – to track health to the last mile for each child and pregnant mother

Blair Palmer, UNICEF Innovation Lab Lead: San Francisco interviewed UNICEF Humanitarian Policy Specialist, Sibi Lawson-Marriott to discuss the ethics of innovation and how UNICEF and partners work to ensure that good ideas truly yield good results.

By Billie Whitehouse (Wearable Experiments) and Sara Panton (Kovert)

Wearable devices were originally designed as singular purpose complex devices that appealed to the athletically inclined and members of the technology community who took pride in quantifying biometrics.